
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
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Languages: English*, German*, French*, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil*, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Russian*, Korean, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America +2 more
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Hours played at review time, across 642 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Not really sure what im doing really but since getting the basic controls figured out, im enjoying slowly learning the different systems
This game is what I was looking for. I've been playing NMS a lot but it doesn't have the focus on space that I was looking for and X4 really deliveres there! It has quite a learning curve but you don't need to learn everything all at once. They have the tutorials playable any time so I just played them as needed. The game has bugs and issues but it's kinda like old Bethesda games where breaking some system can be fun. The game also gives you freedom, you can just easily egnore the missions and go your own way. Enjoying it so far and can see I'm going to sink a lot of hours into it. If you want to try this, set your expectations to "this has a learning curve", slow down and take your time.
I've played No Man's Sky, Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen. This is the game I've been searching for. There's nothing else like it. Learning curve is a bit steep but well worth the time and effort. My only complaints are probably the usual: UI is a bit clunky/non-intuitive and the graphics are outdated. Once I got past those issues, I've been having a blast ever since.
Excellent universe simulation, economy, station building, empire building. Fly yourself or manage from anywhere.
Последние обновление 9,0 , сломало добычу, что сказалось на экономике баз. скан минералов тоже перестал работать, только рассматривать в упор !
Every patch is a giant improvement. Can't wait for the next one!
purchased this game at its release played x, x2, x3, and was super excited for x4. got over 200 hours in before I gave up. controls were wonky, and after about a week of giving it a rest, I forgot how to play the controls are so bad. So, here i am 8 years later. new computer. using mouse and keyboard instead of a joystick. Figured some issues would be fixed. Couldn't even finish the tutorials. on the combat tutorial my ship was stuck in reverse and I slammed into the station. kept resetting my input controls (mouse and keyboard, default settings) so that I had to keep hitting shift space to reenable mouse steering. But ship was still stuck in max reverse. finally fixed that (have no idea what reset it) then I started a game. did the patrol begining adventure mode, where you have to fix a satelite. (sorry, Im a bit distracted. kid keeps saying Im misspelling words, like satellite. I don't care, dads ranting) couldnt figure out how to disembark the ship. every time I go into a menu (had dead satelite targeted, was stopped within 50 meters) the stupid ship would reverse and take me away from the satellite (kid says thank you for spelling satelite correctly last time. still dont care.) Id be like 1.6k away and have to fly back. finally decided to take out my phone and look it up. Swear, I was in the ship menu (enter key) and didn't see "get up" like 4 times. but, control D works as well, and I can do that without slamming my ship into reverse. exited the ship. Now my space suit is in full reverse. Cant stop it. x dont work, y dont work, z dont work. I can hit tab and start moving forward at like 5 meters a second, but I cannot stop. Its either full reverse if im not doing anything, or max thrust with tab. Stupid game. I just saved and quit. Maybe in another 8 years we will get another 10 dlc and they will finally fix the stupid input bugs. Edit : same day, quit, restarted, issue went away. also figured out when mouse steering goes away you can left click and drag the mouse and move your ship that way without constantly hitting shift space to get steering back whenever you exit a menu.
Bought this game a couple years ago, had such high hopes. But I just can't even start playing this game it's so clunky it instantly annoys me just walking around. Tried a couple times, expected it to be polished now, but it's not at all. It feels like a 90's game. Sure it's cool if you can poke through that, maybe after 50 hours there's something awesome underneath, but I don't have time for that and I don't want to try anymore.
Il faut absolument passer la courbe d'apprentissage qui prend entre 8 et 16 heures après c'est que du bonheur
你买游戏是为了玩的,而不是被游戏玩
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